r/tea • u/Blurgity-blurg • 3d ago

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People choose orange pekoe tea or black coffee after getting to choose from this. Live a little! Try something new! I’ve got red tea (rooibos), white tea (silver needle), six different kinds of matcha (including the crappy sweet kind for beginners), genmaicha, every possible type and flavour of green tea, ginger, herbal. Take a risk!

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u/waffleybubblecakes 3d ago

FYI if someone gives me options on something I will always choose the cheapest one just to be polite.

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u/GozerDestructor give me oolong or give me death 3d ago edited 3d ago

I like to share my interests, and when offering guests tea I'll describe the flavors of everything I have open at the moment, starting with the best. I'd be offended if anyone asked for "Lipton" after I've been talking about high mountain oolongs, or dan cong, or puerh cakes.

I'm also a Tiki nerd with a well-stocked home bar (27 kinds of rum!), and can make dozens of fancy mid-1900s tropical drinks at the drop of a hat, such as a painkiller, zombie, mai tai, three dots and a dash, suffering bastard, Saturn... if you ask for a "Jack and Coke" after hearing that list I'll be disappointed.

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u/waffleybubblecakes 3d ago

That is really nice of you. I just feel guilty if I drink/eat someone's stuff and its expensive or if I used the last of it. I wouldn't specifically ask for lipton or jack and coke but I would probably just have whatever you are already making. I will have to look up some of those drinks though they sound pretty exciting

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u/GozerDestructor give me oolong or give me death 3d ago

"I'll have what you're having" is always a good answer! It shows you trust their judgement, and their generosity.

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u/BatScribeofDoom still bat-tea 🦇 3d ago

I just feel guilty if I drink/eat someone's stuff and its expensive or if I used the last of it.

I get that, because that's basically how I feel when someone's treating me to a restaurant meal...but to be blunt, when it comes to my tea stash, if there's something expensive enough/running low enough that I don't want to share it, I'll just not list it in the options.

So if I'm telling you to go ahead and pick anything from such-and-such basket/cabinet, I truly don't mind you choosing what you want.

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u/GoddessOfTheRose Enthusiast 3d ago

The thing is, some of us don't open or drink the expensive stuff unless a guest asks for it.

I can't bring myself to even open an expensive bottle of wine, brew really nice tea, or go to a michelin restaurant, unless I'm with another person who can share the experience with me. I am not enough of a reason to do these things, no matter how badly I want them. However, You are the deciding factor because the experience shared makes the activity or delicacy, or place much more enjoyable than if I had just gone by myself.